Bored in 1977, Inner Mongolia, China,J.W. Zhangreceived his BA, MAattheTaiyuanUniversityof Technology in 2001 and 2004,andPhDat China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (CUMTB) in2013. He served as anAssociate Professor atHeilongjiang University ofScience andTechnologysince 2012and moved to CUMTB in 2017. He is concurrently a member of the 7th Council of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics andEngineering,and a member of the Coal Mine System Engineering Committee of China Coal Society. He has been engaged in research on deep coal mining, mine pressure,andground control. He has presided over 2 national key R&D projects, 2 provincial and ministerial projects, 2 national key laboratory open projects, and participated in 2 national natural science foundation projects. He was awarded the first prize of Science and Technology Progress by the Ministry of Education (Rank No. 1), the second prize of provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress, and won the coal science and technology award. He has published more than 50 refereed journal papers including 28 papers indexed in SCI or EI, 10 selected papers are listed as follows: